I hate regexen, I have been programming Perl for enarly 10 years and I sitll haven't come to terms with them, so I need a little help here please: 
There is a new voicemail in mailbox 11234567890:

    From:     "Unknown" <Unknown>
    Length:     0:13 seconds
    Date:     Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 11:35:01 AM

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I need to extract the 11 digit number following the word 'mailbox' into one variable and I then need to get the value for the From: field (in this case unknown) into another variable. The text is in a single string.

Help please!

jdtoronto

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